John 4:5-46

⁵Then he cometh to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground, that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

⁸(For his disciples had gone to the city to buy provisions.)

⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again:

¹⁴But whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

¹⁵The woman saith to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: in that thou hast spoken truth.

¹⁹The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

²²Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ; when he is come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith to her, I that speak to thee am he .

²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went into the city, and saith to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man who hath told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

³¹In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

³²But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of.

³³Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

³⁵Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit to life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.

³⁷And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

³⁸I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans had come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed, because of his own word;

⁴²And said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.

⁴³Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵Then when he had come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.

⁴⁶So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.